Complete genome sequence of Rickettsia typhi and comparison with sequences of other rickettsiae

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 5842-5855

  McLeod, Michael P ^a,d   Qin, Xiang ^a   Karpathy, Sandor E ^a,d   Gioia, Jason ^b   Highlander, Sarah K ^b   Fox, George E ^c   McNeill, Thomas Z ^a,c   Jiang, Huaiyang ^a   Muzny, Donna ^a   Jacob, Leni S ^a   Hawes, Alicia C ^a   Sodergren, Erica ^a   Gill, Rachel ^a   Hume, Jennifer ^a   Morgan, Maggie ^a   Fan, Guangwei ^a   Amin, Anita G ^a   Gibbs, Richard A ^a   Hong, Chao ^e   Yu, Xue Jie ^e   Walker, David H ^e   Weinstock, George M ^a,b,d,f   more..

^a Human Genome Sequencing Center   (United States)

^b Dept of Molec Virol/Microbiol ^*  (United States)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^f BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ORDER; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INVERTEBRATE; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPOT SPLIT GENE; TYPHUS; VERTEBRATE;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOGENES; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; INVERTEBRATA; MURINAE; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIALES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4344580277     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.17.5842-5855.2004     Document Type: Article

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